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CURRICULUM VITAE
1.MARK D. BERTNESS
Robert P. Brown Professor of Biology
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Phone: (401) 863-2280 Fax (401) 863-2280
Email: [email protected]
2. Home address
157 Touisset Road
Warren, Rhode Island 02866
3. Birth Date
July 13, 1949, Tacoma, Washington, USA
4. Education
B.S. 1971 psychology/chemistry, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
M.S. 1975 biology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington.
Thesis, "Distributional patterns in natural populations of Thais lamellosa
and Thais emarginata, their behavioral mechanisms, physiological
adaptations and ecological significance."
Ph.D. 1979 evolutionary ecology, University of Maryland, College Park,
Maryland. Thesis, "Community dynamics of a tropical hermit crab
assemblage." G.J. Vermeij, Thesis advisor
5. Professional appointments
1975-76
1977-79
1979
1980-92
1987-2002
1997-2000
2000200220032004- 2008
20042011
Research Associate (biology), Western Washington University
Visiting Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
Visiting Scientist, R/V Alpha Helix Morro Expedition
Assistant – Associate Professor, Brown University
Director, Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Robert P. Brown Professor of Biology
Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Senior Scientist (Brown/MBL Partnership), Marine Biological
Laboratory, Woods Hole
Visiting Chair in Ecology, University of Groningen, Holland
Senior Fellow, Center for Biodiversity Research Catholic
University of Santiago, Chile
Visiting Chair in Ecology, University of Sassari, Sardinia, Itally
6. Completed Publications:
a. Books and monographs
Bertness, M. D. 1999. The Ecology of Atlantic Shorelines. 465 pages, Sinauer
Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
Bertness, M. D., S. D. Gaines, and M. Hay (Editors). 2001. Marine Community
Ecology. 550 pages, Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
Nybakken, J. and M. D. Bertness. 2004. Marine Biology: an ecological approach.
Sixth edition. Benjamin Cummings.
Bertness, M.D. 2006. Atlantic Shoreline Ecology: A Natural History. Princeton
University Press
B.R. Silliman and M. D. Bertness (Editors). 2009. Human Impacts on Salt Marsh
Ecosystems: Causes, Consequences and Solutions. University of California
Press
Bertness, M.D., J.F. Bruno, B.R. Silliman, and J.J. Stachowiz (Editors). 2014
Marine Community Ecology and Conservation. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland,
Massachusetts.
b. Chapters in books
Bertness, M. D. and S. C. Pennings. 2000. Spatial Variation in Process and
Pattern in Salt Marsh Plant Communities. Pp 39-58, In: Concepts and
Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology, M. Weinstein (ed) Kluwer Press, Boston
Pennings, S.C. and M. D. Bertness. 2001. Salt Marsh Communities. In: Marine
Community Ecology. M. D. Bertness, S.D. Gaines, and M. Hay (Editors). Sinauer
Associates, Sunderland Massachusetts.
Bruno, J. and M. D. Bertness. 2001. Positive Interactions, Facilitations and
Foundation Species. In: Marine Community Ecology. M. D. Bertness, S. D.
Gaines and M. Hay (Editors). Sinauer Associates, Sunderland Massachusetts.
Adam, P., A. Davy, M. D. Bertness and J. Zedler. 2005. Salt Marsh Ecosystems.
In: The Environmental Future of Aquatic Ecosystems. N. Pullen (Ed) Cambridge
Press.
Sanford, E and M.D. Bertness. 2008. Latitudinal Gradients in Biological
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Interactions. In Marine Macroecology, J. Witman and G. Roy (Ed), Oxford Press
Bertness, M.D. and B.R. Silliman. 2009. Shoreline development impacts on salt
marsh community process and pattern. In: Human Impacts on Salt Marsh
Ecosystems: Causes, Consequences and Solutions. B.R. Silliman, and M.D.
Bertness (Eds.) University of California Press
Silliman, B.R. and M.D. Bertness. 2009. Will over fishing lead to salt marsh loss?
In: Human Impacts on Salt Marsh Ecosystems: Causes, Consequences and
Solutions. B.R. Silliman, and M.D. Bertness (Eds.) University of California Press
Gedan, KG and MD Bertness. 2010. Human impacts, old and new, push the
limits of New England salt marshes. Pp72-79. In: Tidal Marshes of Long Island
New York. John Ponte (Ed). Torry Botanical Society.
Bertness, M.D. and B.R. Silliman. 2014. Salt Marsh Communities. In Bertness,
M.D., J.F. Bruno, B.R. Silliman, and J.J. Stachowiz (Editors). Marine Community
Ecology and Conservation. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
Bertness, M.D. J.F. Bruno, B.R. Silliman, and J.J. Stachowiz. 2014. A Short
History of Marine Ecology. In Bertness, M.D., J.F. Bruno, B.R. Silliman, and J.J.
Stachowiz (Editors). Marine Community Ecology and Conservation. Sinauer
Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
c. Referred journal articles
Bertness, M.D. and D.E. Schneider. 1976. Temperature relations of Puget
Sound thaids in reference to intertidal distribution. Veliger 19(1): 47-58.
Bertness, M.D. 1977. Behavioral and ecological aspects of shore-level size
gradients in Thais lamellosa and Thais emarginata. Ecology 58(1): 86-97.
Bertness, M.D. 1980. Growth and mortality in the ribbed mussel, Geukensia
demissa. Veliger 23: 62-69.
Bertness, M.D. 1980. Shell utilization and preference patterns in hermit crabs
from the Bay of Panama. J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol. 48:1-16.
Bertness, M.D. 1981. Interference, exploitation, and sexual components of
competition in hermit crabs. J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol. 49:189-202.
Bertness, M.D. 1981. Pattern and plasticity in tropical hermit crab reproduction.
Amer. Nat. 117:754-773.
Bertness, M.D. and C. Cunningham*. 1981. Crab predation and gastropod shell
architecture. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 50:213-230.
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Bertness, M.D. 1981. The influence of shell-type on hermit crab growth rate and
clutch size. Crustaceana 40:197-205.
Bertness, M.D. 1981. Predation, physical stress, and the organization of a
tropical hermit crab community. Ecology 62(2): 411-425.
Bertness, M.D. 1981. Competitive dynamics of a tropical hermit crab
assemblage. Ecology 62(3): 751-761.
Bertness, M.D. 1981. Conflicting advantages in resource utilization: the hermit
crab housing dilemma. Amer. Nat. 118:432-437.
Bertness, M.D. 1981. Seasonality in hermit crab reproduction in the Bay of
Panama. Biotropica 13(4): 292-300.
Bertness, M.D., S.D. Garrity and S.C. Levings. 1981. Predation pressure and
gastropod foraging patterns: a latitudinal pattern. Evolution 35(5): 995-1007.
Bertness, M.D. 1982. Shell utilization, predation pressure and thermal stress in
Panamanian hermit crabs: an interoceanic comparison. J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol.
64:159-187.
Bertness, M.D., P.O. Yund*, and A. Brown*. 1983. Snail grazing and the
abundance of algal crusts on a sheltered New England rocky beach. J. exp.
mar. Biol. Ecol. 71:147-164.
Bertness, M.D. 1984. Habitat and community modification by an introduced
herbivorous snail. Ecology 65(2): 370-381.
Bertness, M.D. 1984. Ribbed mussels and the productivity of Spartina alterniflora
in a New England salt marsh. Ecology 65:1794-1807.
Kemp, P.* and M.D. Bertness. 1984. Snail shape and growth rates; evidence for
plastic shell allometry in Littorina littorea. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences 81:811-813.
Hoffman, J.*, J. Katz*, and M.D. Bertness. 1984. Fiddler crab regulation of
meiofauna abundance. J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol. 82:161-174.
Bertness, M.D. and T. Miller*. 1984. The distribution and dynamics of Uea
pugnax burrows in a New England salt marsh. J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol. 83:211237.
Bertness, M.D. 1984. Fiddler crab regulation of Spartina alterniflora production
on a New England salt marsh. Ecology 66: 1042-1055.
Bertness, M.D. and T. Grosholz*. 1985. Population dynamics of the ribbed
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mussel, Geukensia demissa: the costs and benefits of a clumped distribution.
Oecologia 67:192-204.
Ellison, A., M.D. Bertness and T. Miller*. 1985. Belowground dynamics of the salt
marsh cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora. American Journal of Botany 73(11):
1548-1554.
Metcalf, W.*, A.M. Ellison, and M.D. Bertness. 1986. Seedling success and
morphology of Spartina alterniflora. Annals of Botany 58:249-258.
Bertness, M.D. and A.M. Ellison. 1987. Determinants of pattern in a New
England salt marsh plant community. Ecological Monographs 57(2):129-147.
Bertness, M.D., C. Wise*, and A.M. Ellison. 1987. Consumer pressure and seed
set in New England marsh perennials. Oecologia 71:191-200.
Bertness, M.D. 1988. Peat accumulation and the success of marsh plants.
Ecology 69: 703-713.
Bertness, M.D. 1989. Positive and negative density dependent mortality and the
population structure of Balanus balanoides in a sheltered habitat. Ecology 70:
257-268.
Bertness, M.D. 1991. Interspecific interactions among high marsh perennials.
Ecology 72:125-137.
Bertness, M.D. 1991. Zonation of Spartina spp. in New England salt marshes.
Ecology 72:138-148.
Stephens, E.G.* and M.D. Bertness. 1990. Mussel facilitation of barnacle
survival in a sheltered New England habitat. J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol. 145:33-48.
Yund, P., S.D. Gaines, and M.D. Bertness. 1990. Cylindrical tube traps for larval
sampling. Limnology and Oceanography 36:1167-1177.
Bertness, M.D., S.D. Gaines, E.G. Stephens*, and P. Yund. 1990. Components
of recruitment in populations of acorn barnacles. J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol.
156:199-215.
Bertness, M.D. 1992. The ecology of New England salt marsh plant
communities. American Scientist 80:260-268.
Bertness, M.D., T. Chatkupt*, and K. Wikler*. 1992. Flood tolerances and the
distribution of Iva frutescens across New England salt marshes. Oecologia
91:171-178.
Bertness, M.D., L. Gaugh*, and S.W. Shumway. 1992. Salt tolerances and the
distribution of plants across a New England salt marsh. Ecology, 72:1842-1851.
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Bertness, M.D. and S.D. Gaines. 1992. Larval dispersal and local adaptation in
acorn barnacles. Evolution, 47:316-320.
Gaines, S.D. and M.D. Bertness. 1992. Juvenile dispersal in sessile marine
species. Nature. 360 :579-580.
Shumway, S.W. and M.D. Bertness. 1992. Salt stress facilitation of seedling
recruitment in a salt marsh plant community. Oecologia..92:490-497
Gaines, S.D. and M.D. Bertness. 1993. Does variable transport generate
variable settlement in coastal and estuarine species. In: Changes in Fluxes in
Estuaries, K. Dyer and R. Orth (Eds.). Olsen and Olsen Press, London, in press.
Bertness, M.D. and S.W. Shumway. 1993. Competition and facilitation in marsh
plants. American Naturalist, 142:718-724.
Sanford, E.*, D. Bermudez*, M.D. Bertness, and S.D. Gaines. 1994. Flow, food
supply and the population dynamics of acorn barnacles. Marine Ecology
Progress Series.104: 49-62
Gaines, S.D. and M.D. Bertness. 1994. Measuring juvenile dispersal: Why field
ecologists must learn to integrate. Ecology, 74:2430-2435
Bertness, M. D. and S. D. Hacker. 1994. Physical stress and positive
associations among plants. American Naturalist, 144:363-372.
Bertness, M. D. and R. Callaway. 1994. The role of positive forces in natural
communities: a post-cold war perspective. Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
9:191-193.
Shumway, S. W. and M. D. Bertness. 1994. Spatial scale effects on secondary
succession process and pattern. Ecology, 75:564-568.
Bertness, M.D. and S.M. Yeh*. 1994. Cooperative and competitive interactions in
the recruitment of marsh elders. Ecology, 75:2416-2429.
Hacker, S. D. and M. D. Bertness. 1995. An herbivore paradox: Why salt marsh
aphids live in poor quality plants. American Naturalist, 145:192-210
Hacker, S.D. and M.D. Bertness. 1995. Morphological and physiological
consequences of a positive plant interaction. Ecology 76: 2165-2175.
Brewer, S.D. and M. D. Bertness. 1996. Natural disturbance and the genetic
structure of marsh plant populations. Oikos 77:107-116
Hacker, S.D. and M.D. Bertness. 1996. The trophic consequences of a marsh
plant positive interaction. American Naturalist.148:559-575.
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Bertness M. D., S. D. Gaines and R. Wahle. 1996. Wind-driven spatial patterns
in the settlement of benthic shoreline invertebrates. Marine Ecology Progress
Series.137:103-110.
Bertness M. D. and G. Leonard. 1997. The role of positive interactions in
communities: Lessons from the intertidal. Ecology 78: 1978-1989.
Karieva, P. and Bertness, M. D. 1997. Rediscovering the role of positive
interactions in communities. Ecology 78: 1960
Harley, C*. and M.D. Bertness. 1997. Structural interdependence in marsh
plants: united they stand. Functional Ecology 10: 654-661
Bertness M. D., S. D. Gaines and S.M. Yeh*. 1998. Making mountains out of
barnacles: the causes and consequences of barnacle hummocks. Ecology 79:
1382-1394.
Levine J.*, S. J. Brewer and M. D. Bertness.1998. Nutrient availability and the
zonation of marsh plant communities. Journal of Ecology. 86: 285-292.
Brewer, J. S., J. M. Levine*, and M. D. Bertness. 1997. Effects of biomass
removal and elevation on plant species richness in a New England salt marsh.
Oikos 80: 333-341.
Leonard, G., J.M. Levine*, P. Schmidt and M.D. Bertness. 1998. Flow-generated
bottom-up forcing of intertidal community structure in a Maine estuary. Ecology
79: 1395-1411.
Leonard, G., P. Yund and M.D. Bertness. 1998. Predator induced structural
defenses in the blue mussel. Ecology 80: 1-14.
Levine J.*, S. D. Hacker and M.D. Bertness. 1998. The influence of nitrogen
availability on a positive interaction among marsh plants. Oecologia 117:266272.
Brewer, J.S., J.M. Levine, and M.D. Bertness.1998. The role of disturbance in
the structure and organization of New England marsh plant communities. Journal
of Ecology 86:125-136.
Leonard, G., P.Ewanchuk, and M. D. Bertness. 1999. How recruitment,
interspecific interactions and predation control species borders in a tidal estuary.
Oecologia 118: 492-502
Bertness, M. D.,G. Leonard, J.M. Levine*, P. Schmidt and A. O. Ingraham*.
1999. Habitat modification by algal canopies: Testing the relative contribution of
positive and negative interactions in rocky intertidal communities. Ecology 80:
2711-2726.
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Hacker, S.D. and M. D. Bertness. 1999. The role of positive interactions in the
plant species diversity of salt marsh plant communities. Ecology 80:2064-2073.
Bertness, M. D., G. Leonard, J.M. Levine, and J. F. Bruno. 1999. Climate-driven
interactions among rocky intertidal organisms caught between a rock and a hot
place. Oecologia 120: 446-450
Pennings, S. C. and M. D. Bertness. 1999 Using latitudinal variation to examine
effects of climate on coastal salt marsh pattern and process. Proceedings of the
OECD Workshop on Global Change and Wetlands. Journal of Biogeochemistry
3:100-111.
Amsberry, L.*, M. A. Baker, P. J. Ewanchuk and M. D. Bertness. 2000. Clonal
integration and the expansion of Phragmites australis into New England salt
marsh plant communities. Ecological Applications 10: 1110-1118.
Emery, N.*, P. Ewanchuk, and M. D. Bertness. 2001. Nutrients, mechanisms of
competition and the zonation of plants across salt marsh landscapes. Ecology
82: 2471-2485.
Pennings, S. C., E. Siska, and M.D. Bertness. 2001. Latitudinal variation in the
palatability of marsh plants. Ecology 82: 1344-1359
Schmidt, P., D. Rand, and M. D. Bertness. 2000. Environmental heterogeniety
and balancing selection in the acorn barnacle Semibalanus balanoides.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences 267(1440) 379-385
Donnelly, J. and M. D. Bertness. 2001. Rapid shoreward encroachment of salt
marsh vegetation in response to sea-level rise. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Science 98: 14218-14223
Bertness, M.D. and P. Ewanchuk. 2002.Latitudinal and Climate-Driven Variation
in the Strength and Nature of Biological Interactions. Oecologia 132: 392-401.
Silliman, B.R. and M.D. Bertness. 2002. A trophic cascade regulates salt marsh
primary production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 99 (16):
10500-10505.
Bertness, M.D., G. Trussell, P. Ewanchuk and B.R. Silliman. 2002. Do alternate
community stable states exist on rocky shores in the Gulf of Maine? Ecology
83:3434-3448.
Trussell, G.C., P.J. Ewanchuk, and M.D. Bertness. 2002. Field evidence of traitmediated indirect interactions in a rocky intertidal food web. Ecological Letters 5:
1-5.
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Bertness, M.D., P. Ewanchuk, and B.R. Silliman. 2002. Anthropogenic
modification of New England salt marsh landscapes. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Science 99 (3): 1395-1398.
Bruno, J., J.J. Stackowitz, and M. D. Bertness. 2003. Including positive
interactions in ecological theory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18: 119-125
Minchinton, Todd E., Bertness, Mark D. 2003: Disturbance-mediated competition
and the spread of Phragmites australis in a coastal marsh. Ecological
Applications: Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 1400–1416.
Bertness, M.D., Trussell, G.C., Ewanchuk, P.J., Silliman, B.R. and Mullan, C. 200
Consumer Controlled Alternate Community States on Gulf of Maine Rocky Shores
Ecology 85: 1321-1331.
Bertness, M.D., G. Trussell, P. Ewanchuk and B.R. Silliman. 2004. Do alternate
community stable states exist on rocky shores in the Gulf of Maine? A reply. Ecolo
1165-1167.
Pennings, S. C., E. Selig*, L. Houser*, and M. D. Bertness. 2003. Geographic var
positive and negative interactions among marsh plants. Ecology 84:1527-1538.
Ewanchuk, P. J. and M. D. Bertness.2003. Recovery of a northern Nre England sa
plant community from winter icing. Oecologia 136:616-626
Trussell, G.C., P.J. Ewanchuk, and M.D. Bertness. 2003. Trait-mediated effects
in rocky intertidal food chains: predator risk cues alter prey feeding rates.
Ecology 84: 629-640.
Ewanchuk, P. J., and M. D. Bertness.2004.Structure and Organization of a northe
England salt marsh plant community. J. Ecology 92:72-85.
Ewanchuk, P. J., and M. D. Bertness.2004. Maintenance of high diversity pans in
New England salt marshes. Ecology 85: 1568-1574.
Trussell, G.C., P.J. Ewanchuk, B.R. Silliman, and M.D. Bertness. 2004. Indirect
effects mediate consumer control of New England tide pool communities.
Oecologia 139: 427-432.
Bertness, MD, BR Silliman and R. Jefferies. 2004. Salt marshes under siege. Ame
Scientist 92:54-61.
Silliman, B. R. and M. D. Bertness. 2004. Shoreline Development Drives the
Invasion of Phragmites australis and the Loss of New England Salt Marsh
Plant Diversity. Conservation Biology 18: 1424- 1434.
Crain, C. M., B.R. Silliman, S. L. Bertness, and M.D. Bertness. 2004. Mechanisms
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spatial segregation of plants across estuarine salinity gradients. Ecology 85: 2539
Fogel, B*, C. M. Crain, and M. D. Bertness. 2004. Community Level Engineering
Effects of Triglochin maritima (seaside arrowgrass) in a Northern New England
Salt Marsh. Journal of Ecology 92: 589-597.
Pennings, S.C., M. Bestor-Grant* and M. D. Bertness. 2004. Plant zonation in
low-latitude salt marshes: disentangling the roles of flooding, salinity and
competition. Journal of Ecology 93:159-167
Crain, C.M. and M.D. Bertness. 2005. Community impacts of a tussock forming
sedge: Is ecosystem engineering important in benign habitats. Ecology 86: 26952704.
Bromberg, KD and MD Bertness. 2005. Reconstructing New England salt marsh
losses using historical maps. Estuaries 28: 823-832.
Wolters, M., J.P Bakker, M.D. Bertness, R.L. Jefferies, and I. Moller.2005.
Forum: Salt-marsh erosion and restoration in south-east England: squeezing the
evidence requires realignment. Invited commentary. Journal of Applied Ecology
42: 844-851.
Silliman, B.R., M.D. Bertness, C. Mullan, G. Trussell, and P. Ewanchuk. 2005.
Mechanisms of consumer control in Gulf of Maine rocky intertidal communities.
Oecologia
Silliman, B.R., J. Van de Koppel. M.D. Bertness, L. Stanton, and I. Mendelssohn.
2005. Drought and herbivory lead to catastrophic salt marsh collapse. Science
310:1803-1805.
Van De Koppel, B.R. Silliman, A. Altieri and M.D. Bertness. 2005. Scale
dependent interactions lead to the spatial patterning of cobble beach
assemblages. Ecological Letters 9: 45-50.
Minchinton, T.E., J.C. Simpson, and M.D. Bertness. 2006 Mechanisms of
exclusion of native coastal marsh plants by an invasive grass. Journal of Ecology
94: 342-354.
Bertness, M.D. B. R. Silliman, M. C. Bazterrica, M. V. Reyna, F. Hildago and C. M
Crain. 2006. The Community Structure of Western Atlantic Patagonian Rocky
Shores. Ecological Monographs 76: 439-460.
Crain, CM and MD Bertness. 2006. Ecosystem engineering across
environmental stress gradients: implications for conservation and management.
Bioscience 56: 211-216.
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Altieri, A, B.R. Silliman, and M. D. Bertness. 2007. Hierarchical organization via a
facilitation cascade in intertidal
cordgrass bed communities. American
Naturalist
Van Wessenbrek, B., A. Altieri, C. Crain and M.D. Bertness. 2007. Landscape
spatial scale patterns in the organization of halophytic plant communities in
Narragansett Bay. Marine Ecology progress Series 349:63-71.
Halpern, B.S., B.R. Silliman, J.D. Olden, J.P. Bruno, and M.D. Bertness. 2007
Incorporating positive interactions in aquatic restoration and conservation.
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 5: 153-160
Alberti, J., M. Escapa, P. Daleo, O. Iribarne, B. R. Silliman, M. Bertness. 2008.
Crab herbivory generated marsh plant die off and facilitation in Argentinean salt
marshes. Ecology 29: 155- 164
Daleo, P. Alberti, J., O. Iribarne, B. R. Silliman, M. Bertness. 2007. Fungal
mediated crab facilitation of marsh plant production in Argentinean salt marshes.
Ecological Letters 10: 902-908
Hidalgo.,F.J, Silliman, B. R., Bazterrica, M.C. and Bertness M. D. 2008.
Predation Pressure on Rocky Shores of Patagonia, Argentina
Estuaries and Coasts 30: 886-894
Crain, C. M., L. K. Albertson, and M. D. Bertness. 2008. Secondary succession
dynamics in estuarine marshes across landscape-scale salinity gradients.
Ecology 89:2889-2899
Bromberg. K., C.M. Crain and M. D. Bertness. In press. Small mammal herbivore
control of secondary succession in New England tidal marshes. Ecology
Bertness, M.D. and B. R. Silliman. 2008. Human Disturbance Driven Consumer
Control of Salt Marshes. Conservation Biology 22:618-623.
Bertness, M.D., C.M. Crain, C. Holdredge* and N. Sala. 2008. Eutrophication
Triggers Consumer Control of New England Salt Marsh Primary Production.
Conservation Biology 22: 131-139 .
Farina, J., V. Renya, BR. Silliman and MD Bertness. 2008. Can Conservation
Biologists Rely on Established Community Structure Rules to Manage Novel
Systems? … Not in Salt Marshes. Ecological Applications in press
Sala, N.M., M.D. Bertness, and B.R. Silliman. 2008.
The Dynamics of Bottom-up and Top-down Control
in a New England Salt Marsh. Oikos 117:1050-1056
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Bazzterrica. M.C., B.R. Silliman, F.J. Hidaldo, C.M. Crain and M.D. Bertness.
2007. Limpet grazing on physically stressful Patagonian rocky shores. Journal of
Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 353 22-34
Alberti J, M,Escapa, P Daleo, O Irbartne, B. Silliman and M. Bertness. 2007.
Local and geographic variation in grazing intensity by herbivorous crabs in SW
Atlantic salt marshes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 349: 235-243.
Holdredge*, C., A. Altieri, and M.D. Bertness. 2009. Crab herbivory-driven die off
of New England salt marshes. Conservation Biology In press
Bertness, M.D. and C. Holdredge*. 2009. Substrate-type, crab densities and
consumer control of salt marsh primary production on Cape Cod,
Massachusetts. Ecology In press
Gedan, KB, BR Silliman and MD Bertness. 2009. Centuries of human-driven
change in salt marsh ecosystems. Annual Review of Marine Science 1: 117-141.
Gedan, K. B. and M. D. Bertness. 2009. Experimental warming causes rapid loss
of plant diversity in New England salt marshes. Ecology Letters 12: 842-848.
Holdredge, C. and M. D. Bertness. 2010. Litter legacy increases the competitive
advantage of invasive Phragmites australis in New England wetlands. Biological
Invasions on line July 1 2010
Holdredge, C., M. D. Bertness, E. von Wettberg and B. R. Silliman. 2010.
Nutrient enrichment enhances hidden differences in phenotype to drive a cryptic
plant invasion. Oikos 119: 1776–1784
Gedan KB, Bertness MD. 2010. How will warming affect the salt marsh
foundation species Spartina patens and its ecological role?
OECOLOGIA 164: 479-487
Altieri AH, B.K. van Wesenbeeck BK and M.D. Bertness M.D. 2010 Facilitation
cascade drives positive relationship between native biodiversity and invasion
success. ECOLOGY 91: 1269-1275.
Holdredge, C, Bertness, MD, von Wettberg, E. and Silliman, BR. 2010.
Nutrient enrichment enhances hidden differences in phenotype to drive a cryptic
plant invasion. OIKOS 164: 479-487.
Wang, JQ, Zhang, XD, Jiang, LF, Bertness, MD, Fang, CM, Chen, JK, Hara,
T, Li, B. 2010. Bioturbation of Burrowing Crabs Promotes Sediment Turnover
and Carbon and Nitrogen Movements in an Estuarine Salt Marsh.
ECOSYSTEMS 13: 586-599.
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Holdredge, C, Bertness, MD, Herrmann, NC, and Gedan, KB. 2010 Fiddler
crab control of cordgrass primary production in sandy sediments. Marine Ecology
Progress Series 399: 253-259.
Gedan, KB, J Bernhardt, MD Bertness and HM Leslie. 2011. Substrate size
mediates thermal stress in the rocky intertidal. Ecology 92: 576-582.
Angelini, C, A Altieri, B.R Silliman and M.D. Bertness. 2011. Interactions among
Foundation species and their consequences for community organization,
biodiversity and conservation. BioScience 61:782-789.
Silliman, B.R., M. D. Bertness , A. H. Altieri , J.N. Griffin , M. C. Bazterrica ,
F. J. Hidalgo, C. M. Crain M. V. Reyna.. 2011. Whole-Community Facilitation
Regulates Biodiversity on Patagonian Rocky Shores. Plos One 6:1-10
Gedan KB, Altieri AH, Bertness MD. 2011. What is the future of New England
salt marshes? Marine Ecology Progress Series 434: 229-237.
Altieri, AH, MD. Bertness, TC Coverdale, NC. Herrmann, and C. Holdredge.
2012. Recreational fishing pressure triggers salt marsh die-off. Ecology 93:
1402-1410
Coverdale, T. N. Herrmann, A. Altieri and MD. Bertness.2013.
Latent impacts: the role of historical human activity in coastal habitat loss.
Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 11:69-74
Coverdale* T.C., A. H. Altieri, and M. D. Bertness. 2012. Above- and
belowground herbivory drive New England salt marsh die-off. Ecology 93: 20852094
He, Q., B. Cui, Baoshan and M. D. Bertness. 2012. Testing the importance of
plant strategies on facilitation using congeners in a coastal community. Ecology
93: 2023-2029.
Coverdale*, T. N. Herrmann*, A. Altieri and M. D. Bertness.2013. Latent impacts:
the role of historical human activity in coastal habitat loss. Frontiers in Ecology
and Environment 11:69-74 Cover Photo
Altieri, A.H., M. D. Bertness, T. C. Coverdale*, N. C. Herrmann*, and E.
Axelman*. 2013. Feedbacks underlie the resilience of salt marshes and rapid
reversal of consumer-driven die-off. Ecology 94:1647-1657.
Bertness, M. D. and T. C. Coverdale. 2013 Compensatory predation by green
crabs facilitate the recovery of New England salt marshes. Ecology 9: 1937-1943
Featured on the NSF Website – Covered by the New York Times
Coverdale, T. C, A. Altieri and MD. Bertness. 2013. Regional Ontogeny of New
England Salt Marsh Die-off. Conservation Biology 27: 1041-1048
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Qiang, H, M. D. Bertness and A. H. Altieri. 2013. Global evidence for increasing
positive species interactions with environmental stress. Ecology Letters 16:695706.
Silliman, B. R., M.W. McCoy, G.C. Trussell, and M.D. Bertness. Non-Linear
Interactions between Consumers and Flow Determine the Probability of Plant
Community Dominance on Maine Rocky Shores
Plos One DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0067625
Silliman B. R, McCoy, M.W., Trussell, G.C, Crain, C.M., Ewanchuk, P. J. and
Bertness, M. D. 2013. Non-Linear Interactions between Consumers and Flow
Determine the Probability of Plant Community Dominance on Maine Rocky
Shores. PLoS ONE 8(8): e67625. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0067625
Coverdale T. C., E. E. Axelman*, C. P. Brisson, E. W. Young*, A. H. Altieri and
M. D. Bertness. 2013. New England Salt Marsh Recovery: Opportunistic
Colonization of an Invasive Species and Its Non-Consumptive Effects. PLoS
ONE 8: e73823. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073823
Coverdale, T. C., E. W. Young*. C. P. Brisson*, J. P. Donnelly and M. D.
Bertness.. 2014. Decades of die-off reverse centuries of carbon sequestration
and salt marsh accretion. Plos One in press
He, Q., M. D. Bertness, T. Coverdale, A. H. Altieri, J. F. Bruno and others. In
review. Escalating economic growth threatens Chinese marine resources and
marine ecosystem services. Science Review
Bertness, M.D., C. P. Brisson* T. C. Coverdale, M. C. Bevil*, S. M. Crotty* and E.
R. Suglia*. 2014 Experimental predator removal causes rapid salt marsh die-off.
Ecology Letters in press
Bertness, M.D. and Q. He. 2014. Extreme stresses, niches and positive species
interactions along stress gradients. Ecology inpress
Bertness, M.D. and C. P. Brisson*. In review. Indirect anthropogenic effects turn
off reciprocal feedbacks and decrease resilience in a New England salt marsh
Oecologica
Bertness, M. D., C. Brisson*, M. Bevil*, and S. Crotty*. 2014 Herbivory drives
the spread of salt marsh die-off. Plos One
*undergraduate co-authors
d. book reviews
Animals of the Tidal Marsh. Franklin C. Daiber. American Scientist, 1982, 76:42.
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Marine Ecological Processes. Ivan Valiela. Science, 1985, 4703:1083-1084.
Marine Ecology: An experimentalist’s perspective. Robert T. Paine. Ecology,
1995
Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology, M. Weinstein (ed) Journal
of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 2002
e. invited lectures
1979 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Brown University, Providence, RI
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
1980 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Yale University, New Haven, CT.
1981 American Society of Zoologists, Seattle, WA.
Department of Zoology, University of Rhode Island, RI.
1982 Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
Littorina Symposium, Nahant Marine Science Institute, Nahant, MA.
1983 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
Harvard University, Boston, MA.
1984 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Brown University, Geology Dept.
University of North Carolina
Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
1985 State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY.
Barrington Conservation Commission, Barrington, RI.
1986 Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Nahant Marine Center, Boston, MA.
Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beufort, NC.
1987 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Tufts University, Medford, MA.
University of Houston, Houston, TX.
University of South Carolina
1988 University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.
1989 Southern Massachusetts University, Dartmouth, MA.
Connecticut College
1990 Manomet Bird Observatory
University of California, Davis, CA.
1991 Louisiana State University
Nahant Marine Laboratory
1992 Plymouth Polytec, UK
University of Alabama
University of Maryland
1993 Rutgers University
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University of Rhode Island
University of Georgia
1994 University of South Florida
Graduate School of Oceanography-URI
University of New Hampshire
1995 University of Wisconsin
Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia
Wheaton College
University of Connecticut
1996 Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia
National Institute of Global Climate Change, UC Davis
University of Pennsylvania
Barrington Conservation Commission
1997 Yale University
University of Southern Maine
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
University of New Hampshire
University of London
University of Connecticut, Avery Point
1998 Rhode Island Natural History Survey
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
University of Chicago
Rhode Island EPA Laboratory
1999 Bodega Marine Laboratory, Bodega Bay, California
University of California, Davis
Western Washington University
Barrington Conservation Commission
Rhode Island Wildflower Society
Colorado State University
Massachusetts Audubon
2000 University of South Carolina
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
City College of New York
Isle of Shoals Marine Laboratory
2001 Georgia Tech
Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York
University of Mar Del Plata, Marine Station, Argentina
2002 Tufts University
University of Alaska, Anchorage
University of Toronto
University of Northern Florida
Isle of Shoals Marine Laboratory - CORONA
2003 University of Mar De Plata, Biology Department, Argentina
State University of New York, Stony Brook
University of South Carolina, Columbia
University of Zurich, Switzerland
University of California, Davis
University of Georgia, Athens
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National Wetlands Center, Louisiana
University of Central Patagonia, Puerto Madryn, Argentina
Rhode Island Sea Grant, Narragansett, Rhode Island
Tabor Academy
The Nature Conservancy, Long Island Chapter
Catholic University of Chile, Santiago
Duke University
Groningen University, Groningen Holland
Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Center for Marine Science, Zeeland
Queens University, Belfast Ireland
2004 Ecosystem Center, Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole
University of Rhode Island, Biological Sciences
National Marine Fisheries Conservation Biology Laboratory, Seattle
Conference of New England Governors, Environmental Change Workshop
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Coastal Ocean Forum
University of Utrecht, Netherlands
U Mass, Boston
Spartina Invasion Conference, San Francisco
Western Society of Naturalists, Sonoma, California
University of New Hampshire
Mt. Holyoke College
2005
Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University
University Of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Groningen University, Ecology Group, Groningen Holland
University of St Andrews, Scotland
Brown Woman’s Club of Rhode Island
Georgia Tech
Brown Club of Connecticut
McGill University
Laval University
Netherlands Royal Institute of Marine Science
Wellesley University
University of Mar De Plata, Biology Department, Argentina
2006
Graduate School of Oceanography, URI
University of Groningen, Marine Biology Department
Save the Bay, Providence, RI
St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
2007
Rutgers University
Cal State University, Los Angeles
Miami University of Ohio
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Wa
University of New Hampshire
National Estuarine Research Reserve Annual Meeting
Bowdoin College
Southeastern New England Marine Educators
Boston University
Massachusetts Audubon
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Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Riser Lecture, Marine Science Center, Northeastern University
Restoring America’s Estuaries, Providence, RI
University of Connecticut
Madison Conservation Trust, Connecticut
Fudan University, Shanghi, China (2 seminar workshop)
Fudan University Marine Laboratory
Wheaton College
Marine Biological Association, UK, Annual Lecture, Plymouth England
Italian Marine Biological Assoc, Annual Meeting Keynote, Rapalla, Italy
University of New Brunswick, St Johns
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
University of Sassari, Sardinia Italy, 3 seminar workshop
Yale University
Massachusetts Audubon
University of Maine, Bangor
University of Pisa, Dartmouth College, University of Bologna
Royal Dutch Marine Laboratory, Texel, UC Davis Ecology Group,
Roger Williams University
7. Research Grants:
Completed Grants
"The role of Geukensia demissa in the productivity and stability of New
England salt marshes," National Science Foundation (1982-85).
"Animal-sediment interactions and the productivity and structure of salt
marsh communities," National Science Foundation (1984-86).
"The role of Geukensia demissa in the productivity and stability of New
England salt marshes: supplement," National Science Foundation (1985).
"Structure and dynamics of a New England salt marsh plant community,"
National Science Foundation (1985-88).
"Plant-Animal interactions in Mangrove plant communities," with A. M.
Ellison. Center for Field Research (1987).
"Patch dynamics of a New England marsh plant community," National
Science Foundation (1989-92).
"Causes and consequences of variable recruitment in acorn barnacles,"
with S. Gaines and R. Geyer (WHOI). National Science Foundation (199094).
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"Recruitment variation in economically important species," with S. D.
Gaines. Rhode Island Sea Grant (1991).
"Coastal ecosystems" with S. D. Gaines. Mellon Foundation (1992-95)
"The role of facilitative processes in marsh plant communities" NSF
(1993-96)
"Linkages between oceanographic and benthic population processes"
NSF 1994-97)
“The evolutionary and ecological significance of natural disturbance in a
New England salt marsh” with Steven Brewer NSF (1994)
“The dynamics of marine ecosystems” Mellon Foundation (1995-2000)
with J. Witman
“The molecular genetics of the common acorn barnacle” NSF (19951999) with D. Rand
“Climate-driven process and pattern in western Atlantic salt marsh plant
communities” DOE (1995-1999) with S. Pennings (University of Georgia)
“The role of nutrient limitation in the zonation and structure of New
England salt marsh plant communities” NSF (1996-1999) with S. Brewer
(University of Mississippi)
“Towards a unified understanding of the invasion of Phragmites australis
into New England salt marshes” with Todd Minchinton. Rhode Island Sea
Grant (1997-2000)
“The ecology of New England cobble beach plant communities” National
Estuarine Research Reserve Graduate Fellowship support for John Bruno
(1997-2000)
“Patch persistence and seedling dynamics in a southern Maine marsh”
National Estuarine Research Reserve Graduate Fellowship support for
Pat Ewanchuk (1998-2001)
“Distribution and abundance of forbs across a salt marsh landscape:
Relative effects of seed supply, physiological stress and species
interactions” NSF dissertation improvement grant for Tatyana Rand
(1998-2001)
“Keystone facilitation by cordgrass on cobble beach plant communities”
NSF dissertation improvement grant for John Bruno (1998-2000)
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“The biogeography and consequences of positive interactions in New
England rocky intertidal communities” NSF Biological Oceanography
(1998-2001)
“The ecology of the pulmanate snail Melampus in New England salt
marsh plant communities” National Estuarine Research Reserve
Graduate Fellowship support for Brian Silliman (2000-2003)
"Contrasting the marine communities of North and South America" Mellon
Foundation with Jon Witman (7/00-6/03)
“A long-term monitoring program for Narragansett Bay salt marshes”
Rhode Island Sea Grant – (7/00-6/03)
“Understanding how salt marsh plant communities are influenced by
estuarine salinity gradients” National Estuarine Research Reserve
Graduate Fellowship support for Caitlin Mullan ( 7/00-6/04)
“Top-down control of Primary Production in Georgia Salt marshes” with
Brian Silliman, NSF Ecology Program (7/00-6/06)
“Understanding the potential for top-down control in Southeastern salt
marshes” with Brian Silliman. Georgia Sea Grant (6/04-5/06)
“Experimental studies of drought effects of New England salt marsh
services” National Estuarine Research Reserve Graduate Fellowship
support for Kristy Kroecker (7/06-6/07)
“Elucidating the ecology of tidal estuary plant communities for their
conservation and management” with Caitlin Mullan Crain. Rhode Island
Sea Grant (6/04-5/07)
“How does shoreline development impact the services provided by New
England salt marshes” Rhode Island Sea Grant (6/06-5/08)
"Do Alternate Stable Community States Exist in the Gulf of Maine Rocky
Intertidal Zone?" NSF Biological Oceanography. (7/01-6/08)
" A Graduate Training Exchange Between Program between Brown and
Argentina" Mellon Foundation (7/01-12/09)
“Top-Down Control of Southwestern Atlantic Salt Marsh Plant Communities
”with Brian Silliman, University of Florida, NSF Ecology Program, (8/067/09)
“Is crab herbivory causing the die-off of New England salt marshes? Rhode
Island Sea Grant (6/08-4/11)
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“Recreational fishing pressure and the collapse and resilience of Cape
Cod salt marshes” National Science Foundation (6/10-7/14)
8. Service:
(i) to the University
Concentration Advisor: Aquatic Biology, 1982-84, 1990-91.
Undergraduate Advisor, 1984-86.
Population Biology Seminar series coordinator, Fall 1984, Spring 1987,
1991,1993, Fall 1996, Spring1998, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Fall
2003, Fall 2006
Greenhouse Renovation Committee, 1981.
Greenhouse Supervisor 1992, 2006
Faculty Search Committees:
Plant Ecologist, 1981
Population Ecologist, 1983
Population Geneticist, 1985
Ecologist, 1987
Evolutionary Morphologist, 1988
Evolutionary Morphologist, 1989
Marine Ecologist, 1993
Conservation biologist, 2000, 2007
Director, Environmental Change Initiative (ECI), 2003
ECI Junior Faculty, 2005, 2006, 2008
University Graduate Council 1985-87.
Brown Continuing Education Program (University Relations)
"Salt Marshes of Rhode Island," April 1982 with W. Prell (Geology).
"Belize: Coral Reef Ecology," 1984, 1985.
High School Teacher Development Program (co-sponsored by the
Biology and Education Departments:
"Rhode Island Shorelines as classrooms," April 1985.
"Rhode Island Salt Marshes," July 1990
“Teaching hands-on marine ecology” June 1994
Director Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1987- 20
Academic Priorities Committee, 1999- 2003
Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2002Chair, Brown/MBL graduate program 2003-2006
Steering Committee, Environmental Change Initiative 2003-2010
Steering Committee, Brown/MBL Institutional Partnership 2003-2006
(chair), 2006- (member)
Concentration advisor, Marine Biology 2004Search Committee - Director of the Ecosystem Center at the Marine
Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole 2005
Provost’s committee to increase the visibility of undergraduate science
2005
Environmental council 2008-
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(ii) to the profession
Reviewer for: Ecology; American Naturalist; Journal of Experimental
Marine Biology and Ecology; Journal of Crustacean Biology; Science;
Journal of Chemical Ecology; Veliger; Biotropica; Crustaceana; Evolution;
American Scientist. National Science Foundation (programs in Ecology,
Population Biology, and Biological Oceanography).
Organizing Committee, Population Biologists of New England, Brown
University, 1983.
Editorial Board, Ecology/Ecological Monographs, 1989-92.
Somerset Conservation Commission. 1985-89
Outside Thesis Examiner: SUNY, Stony Brook, University of Maine
(twice), University of Connecticut, University of Alabama (twice),
University of Virginia, University of Sydney (twice), University of South
Carolina, Colby College (twice), Rutgers University, University of New
Hampshire (twice), University of Mar Del Plata (twice), Catholic University
of Santiago, Chile, University of Groningen, Holland (three times),
Northeastern University (twice)
NYC Natural Resource Council, Wetland Advisory Board 1993
Panel Member, NSF Dissertation Improvement Awards 1991,1992,1994
Panel Member, NSF Marine Laboratory and Field Station Improvement
Awards 1992, 1993
National Academy of Science Marine Biodiversity Workshop 1994
Panel Member, NSF Conservation Biology 1995, 1996
Academy of Natural Sciences, Estuarine Research Committee, 1995
Panel Member, NOAA - Sea Grant, Invasive Species Awards 1998
Chair, Editor Search Committee, The American Naturalist 1998
Panel Member, National Estuarine Research Reserve - Ecological
Monitoring Advisory Committee, Ecological Society of America, 1998
Ecological Monitoring Advisory Committee, Restoring America’s
Estuaries, 1999
Scientific Advisory Board, Save the Bay 1999Scientific Advisory Board, Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research
Reserve 1999Panel Member, National Estuarine Research Reserve - Invasive Species
Monitoring Advisory Committee, 2001
Advisory Board, Marine Science Center, Northeastern University 2002Steering Committee – NSF North Atlantic Project 2002Scientific Advisor to The Nature Conservancy (TNC), developing a salt
marsh conservation strategy for North America 2003Scientific Advisor, TNC Rhode Island 2004Editorial Board, Estuaries 2004-2008
Trustee, Marine Biological Association, United Kingdom 2004-2008
Scientific Advisor, Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research
Reserve Research Committee 2004Scientific Advisor, Georgia Tech Ecosystem Engineering Workshop 2004Scientific Advisor, California Department of the Environment, Pelagic
Organism Decline in San Francisco Bay Advisory Board, 2005
Organizer, Workshop on Marine Experimental Ecology and Conservation
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Biology, University Mar De Plata, Argentina, 2005
Graduate Program Review – SUNY Buffalo 2006
Chair American Naturalist Young Investigator Prize Committee, 2007
Advisory Committee on the Environment - United States Senator Sheldon
Whitehouse (Rhode Island) 2007Outside Reviewer – Georgia Tech, School of Biology, 2008
Outside Reviewer – Bowdoin College Coastal Center, 2011
9. Academic honors:
1998 Walter W. Annenburg University Professor
1999 Elizabeth Leduc Prize for Distinguished Teaching in the Life
Sciences
2000 Robert P. Brown Professor of Biology
2002 ISI Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Environmental
Science
2003 Eminent Ecologist, University of California, Davis
2003 Distinguished Wetland Ecologist, Duke University
2004 Visiting Chair in Ecology, University of Groningen, Holland
Distinguished Ecologist, Mt Holyoke College
Senior Fellow, Catholic University of Santiago, Chile
2008 Riser Lecture, Marine Science Center, Northeastern University
2009 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2011 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Graduate and Postdoctoral
Mentoring
2013 Senior Fulbright Scholar University of Pisa and Sasari Italy
10. Teaching
Bio 19: Freshman Seminar in Tropical Biology, fall semester 2004, 2005, 2006,
2007. Responsible for all lectures, laboratories and field trips, ~10
students
Bio 41: Invertebrate Zoology, fall semesters 1980 to 2008, responsible for all
lectures and laboratories, 35-40 students/year
Bio 144: Marine Ecology, spring semesters in even numbered years 1980 to prese
15 students/year
Bio 195: Independent Study. I typically have 2-4 undergraduates doing
independent projects in my lab at any given time
Bio 294: Graduate Seminar. I teach this course ~ every 3 or 4 years, 12
student/year
Bio 295: Graduate Student Tropical Field Course. I teach this course every 2-3
years, 1991 to present 12-15 students/year
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ES 150: Human Impacts on Ecosystem Services. With Osvaldo Sala. Spring
Semester. 20-30 students/year. Course showcasing Brown and Marine
Biological Laboratory research on Human impacts on natural systems
2005- 2008
ES 155: Coastal Ecology and Conservation. With Heather Leslie. Fall Semester.
Lecture and discussion course with a three-day field trip to Cape Cod.1012 students/year. 2008-present
Undergraduate Honors Theses – on average 2-3/year
I typically have 10-15 advises/year
In addition to my teaching at Brown, from 1999-2011 with support from the
Mellon Foundation and NSF I was the primary advisor to 6 Argentinean graduate
students and on the thesis committee of 3 others.
Also, as part of my duties as visiting chair in Ecology at the University of
Groningen, Holland I served as an advisor to a half dozen Dutch doctoral
students
Many undergraduate researchers from my laboratory have gone on to highly
successful careers in ecology and evolutionary biology including:
Cliff Cunningham, professor, Duke University
Edwin Grosholz, professor, UC Davis
Steve Pennings, Professor, University of Houston
Laura Gough, associate professor, U West Texas
Nancy Emery, assistant professor, Notre Dame University
Elizabeth Farnsworth, Bullard Fellow, Harvard
Phil Yund, Director, University of New England Marine Research Lab
Tecumseh Fitch, Professor, University of Vienna
Letise Houser, Director, NOAA Marine Sanctuary Program
Chris Harley, assistant professor at U British Columbia
Eric Sanford, associate professor at UC Davis
Kelly Benoit, associate professor, Oregon State University (MacArthur Award 201
Eric Berlow, UC Merced, Research Station Director
Jonathan Levine, professor, ETH Geneva, Switzerland
Mary O’Connor, assistant professor, U British Columbia
Nathan Kraft, assistant professor, U Maryland
Christine Holdredge Angelinii, assistant professor, U Florida Gators
Graduate Students: 17 total
A. M. Ellison, Ph.D., 1986 – Professor, Harvard University
F. M. Thomas, M.S., 1987 – Professor, University of South Florida
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D. Hirata, M.S., 1990 – stockbroker and magician, San Francisco
S. W. Shumway, Ph.D., 1991 – Professor, Wheaton College
P. Halpin, Ph.D., 1994 – Senior Researcher, UC Santa Barbara
S. Hacker Ph.D., 1996 – Associate Professor, Oregon State University
M. Baker M.S., 1996 – high school biology teacher, Portland, OR
G. Leonard, Ph.D. 1998 – research scientist Monterey Bay Aquarium
T. Rand, Ph.D., 2000 – Research Ecologist, TNC, Nebraska
P. Ewanchuk, Ph.D. 2002 - Associate professor Providence College
J. Bruno, Ph.D., 2000 – Associate professor, UNC, Chapel Hill
B. Silliman Ph.D. 2004 – Associate professor, Duke
C. Crain Ph.D. 2006 – Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Santa Cruz
K. Bromberg Gedan PhD 2009. Instructor U Maryland College Park
Post-doctoral Associates: 12 total
Phil Yund, 1987-88 – Director, University of New England Marine Research Lab
Rick Wahle 1990 – Senior scientist Darling Marine Center, University of Maine
Steve Brewer 1993-95 – Professor, University of Mississippi, Oxford
Todd Minchinton 1996-98 – Associate professor, University of Adelaide
Geoff Trussell 1998- 2001 – Associate professor, Northeastern University
Alejandro Bortolus 2001-2003 – Research scientist, University of Central Patagon
Cesar Costa 2001- 2002 – Professor, University of Rio Grande, Brazil
Eric Sanford 2002- 2004 - Associate professor, UC Davis
Johan Van de Koppel 2003-2004 – Associate Professor Netherlands Institute of
Marine Ecology, Zeeland
Andrew Irving 2005-2007, Instructor, University of Adelaide
Erica Garcia 2006-2008, Postdoctoral Researcher, Darwin, Australia
Andrew Altieri 2007- 2011, Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research
Institute
Huili, Chen present 2013-
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